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    "localId": "165187",
    "label": "Headdress",
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    "id": "165187",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Headdress",
    "description": "Hundreds of red tail feathers from the grey parrot (<em>Psittacus</em> <em>erithacus</em>) decorate this disk-shaped headdress. Only the king, some high-ranking individuals, and members of the all-male elephant society—known in different languages as Kuosi, Nekang, or Kem-ndze—wore this prestigious headgear at ceremonies and funerals. Typically, the headdress was worn pushed slightly back from the hairline. When used by members of the elephant society, it was accompanied by a cloth and glass bead mask (<em>mbap</em> <em>mteng</em>) in the shape of that animal, such as 1985.1082.",
    "date": "1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.181",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79993770"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Garment"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.181/2007.181_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.181/2007.181_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 90 cm (35 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Grassfields region, Bamileke-style maker"
    ],
    "accession": "2007.181"
}

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    "tec": "African gray parrot feathers, wood, plant fiber, probably cotton, string, and colorant",
    "tombstone": "Headdress, 1900s. Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Grassfields region, Bamileke-style maker. African gray parrot feathers, wood, plant fiber, probably cotton, string, and colorant; diameter: 90 cm (35 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund, 2007.181",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This headdress has an ingenious built-in storage system: it can be flipped inside out to encase the feathers within a rigid woven structure, protecting them during storage or travel.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Petridis, Constantine. \"New Acquisitions of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art\". African Arts, 44, no. 1, (Spring 2011):  52-67.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p . 59; reproduced:  p. 63, fig. 11.",
            "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/7021560093"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.181",
    "creditline": "Sundry Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:33:39.205000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.181/2007.181_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 165187,
    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "African gray parrot feathers, wood, plant fiber, probably cotton, string, and colorant",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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